Amex Gold to Premium upgrade 40,000 bonus points offer

[barrym01]

As a holder of an existing Amex [BA] I didn’t qualify for bonus by opening a gold card. However, read in a HforP post that I would be able to get a bonus by upgrading from a gold to a platinum. I’ve successfully applied for a gold, as was then provided with a link by Amex’s call centre as it wasn’t showing in the offers. When trying the link it states that I don’t qualify for the offer. I enclose the link & would appreciate any advice. Apparently the offer ends on Wednesday. https://www.americanexpress.com/amex/en-gb/benefits/upgrade/platinum/

[Carlos]

It seems unlikely they will allow newly registered users to upgrade but try again every day. IIRC some reports have come through successfully.

[JDB]

There has been some suggestion here that you need to have held the gold card for a while, maybe a year. I’m not sure anyone said it was possible to apply for gold and straight away use this offer to upgrade to Plat as a back door to a SUB for which one otherwise wasn’t eligible.

[degsy]

Here you go @barrym01 have a read of this thread, which gives a few real life examples. It seems you need to have held the Gold card for a year (like i have) in order to be eligible.

https://www.headforpoints.com/forums/topic/upgrade-preferred-rewards-gold-credit-card-to-platinum/

[Aston100]

There isn’t anything in the t&cs about how long you need to hold a PRG before upgrading to the Platinum CC.
I made this point after repeatedly being rejected by the upgrade link.
Was eventually given a decent amount of MR as goodwill, which (overall) works out better for me as I will now be able to pickup the annual spend bonus from the PRG in due course.

[Ash]

Hi Aston, i’ll try that. How long have you had the PRG?

[Aston100]

Ash wrote:

Hi Aston, i’ll try that. How long have you had the PRG?

More than 3 months, but less than a year.
Sorry, don’t want to be specific on this occasion.

[pbcold]

I have just been accepted for the upgrade. If I now spend on my Gold Card will this immediately contribute towards the required £4,000 Platinum spend? Thank you.

[Carlos]

pbcold wrote:

I have just been accepted for the upgrade. If I now spend on my Gold Card will this immediately contribute towards the required £4,000 Platinum spend? Thank you.

Yes, if the upgrade was successful any cleared spend will contribute to the target going forward.

[pbcold]

Thank you @Carlos.